41 6 On the Fojfd Bones of Quadrupeds. 



the plafter (lone of Montmartre. The form of it3 jaw- 

 tones, the number of its grinders, the points with which 

 they are armed, indicate that this fpecies muft belong to the 

 genus of the canis. It however does not exacllv refemble any- 

 known fpecies of that genus. The moil finking diltinclive 

 mark is, that the feventh lower grinder is the greateft in 

 the animal of Montmartre ; whereas it is the fifth in the 

 dog, wolf, fox, &c. 



10. The animal, a lower jaw of which, found near Ve- 

 rona, has been conlidered by Jofeph Monti as a portion of 

 the cranium of the feu-cow ; an opinion adopted by all 

 geoiogifts, though contrary to the fimpleft principles of Com- 

 parative anatomy. This jaw, according to Cit. Cuvier, has 

 belonged to an animal approaching near to the mammoth^ 

 the animal of the Ohio, and that of Sinore, though fpeci- 

 fically diiVerent. Its molt particular charaCterifing mark 

 confifts in the beak formed by its fyrnphyfis. 



11. The animal of the flag kind, bones and horns of 

 which are found in Ireland, England, at Maefcricht, Sec, 

 It is evidently diftincl from all the (lags known, and evert 

 from the elk, to which it has been referred, on account of 

 the enormous fize of its horns, the flatnefs of the upper 

 part of them, and the branches that arife from the root. 

 Several figures of them may be feen in the Philofophicaf 

 Tranfaftions. 



xz. The genus of the ox alone furnifhes feveral fpecies of 

 foffils. The fkulls of two which have been defcribed by 

 Pallas, were found in Siberia. One of thefe he referred to 

 the common buffalo ; but he afterwards referred it to a par- 

 ticular fpecies named ami, originating from Thibet. Cit. 

 Cuvier proves, by ofteological comparison, that this fkull 

 docs not belong to the buffalo. The other kind appeared to 

 Pallas to belong to the buffalo of the Cape, or the mufk- 

 ox of Canada. Cit. Cuvier fhews that they could not have 

 belonged to the former ; but, not having the cranium of 

 the ami nor the mulk-ox, he does not fpeak with certainty 

 of their identity or non-identity with thefe foffil crania. 



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